FEBRUARY 2009 SINCE AUGUST 2007 Page 1 AgiotThe 16th Edition This Month Music Week Septem- MUSIC WEEK SEPTEMBER 09 ber 09. Page 1-3 be available, again details to album 'one of the monu- follow. Orders will be possi- mentally great records of the Village News. ble on-line. last 40 years.' In 2006 Liege Page 3 Food and refreshments & Lief was voted 'Best Folk With the Monks at will be sold on this day at Album Ever’ by Radio 2 Mount Athos. the venue. listeners, and in the same Page 4-5 Fairport Convention was year it was awarded a Gold The Marina. formed in 1967, in subur- Disc for continuing sales. Page 5 ban north London. The Fairport Convention is On the 7th SEPTEMBER group gained its name from still one of the busiest bands Corfu Weather Statis- 2009 the sixth annual Agios a house named Fairport, around. The current line-up tics. Ioannis Music Week is tak- family home of rhythm gui- of Simon Nicol (lead vocal, Page 5 ing place in our village, at tarist Simon Nicol, where rhythm and electric guitars), Aunty Lula’s Love- the location of the New the band rehearsed. By Dave Pegg (backing vocals, Bites. Cactus Hilton. 1969, with regular work at bass guitar, and mandolin), Page 5 We are very excited at several underground ven- Ric Sanders (violin), Chris the prospect of welcoming ues, a record contract, and Leslie (lead vocal, fiddle, Local News - Tem- ploni Landfill. the Dylan Project for the four albums under their bouzouki, and mandolin) Page 6 climax of this musicfest, on belt, the band was inventing and Gerry Conway the Saturday, 12th Septem- its signature 'folk-rock' (percussion and drums) still News From the ber. Ticket sales are immi- sound, a hybrid of imagina- packs venues on its frequent North. Page 6 nent and the Agiot will be tive revivals of traditional tours. Each year starts with publishing details shortly, as material with modern in- Fairport covering the length Our House and will the Corfiot magazine. strumentation and rhythms. and breadth of Britain on Other Ruins. An attendance of 1000 is The next LP, Liege & Lief, its Winter Tour. In August, Page 7-8 hoped for, there would no was a classic, arguably Fair- the band stages Fairport's Obituaries. doubt be many more if we port Convention's finest Cropredy Convention mu- Pages 8 had the capacity-a situation album, and one which es- sic festival in Oxfordshire. Aphrodite for Total we are already reviewing for tablished British folk-rock as Most years, there is a tour in Relaxation. 2010. a distinct and influential the USA and Canada and Page 9 There will be a number genre. Critics say that it UK tours by the Fairport of outlets across the island marked the transition of the Acoustic line-up and by Bargain Basement. Page 9 for the sale of tickets, details band from one that used spin-off band The Dylan will follow in this on-line folk music as an influence Project. It is said that Economy. magazine. The price of each on their sound, into a group 'Fairport did for real ale Pages 10 ticket will be 20 Euros for that specialised in reinter- what the Grateful Dead did the Saturday night, but a preting traditional English for LSD.' The Secret Service. special Earlybird ticket will music, and described the Continued on Page 2 Pages 10-11 FEBRUARY 2009 SINCE AUGUST 2007 Page 2 Music Week September 09 Britain, Europe and the USA, and cess to the Festival. Continued from page 1 continue to tour in their own right This year's Music Week is the today. At the end of the 1990s, Gib- sixth to take place at this inland The line-up for the Agios Ioan- bons formed the trio Dylan Project, village close to the Aqualand Water nis Music Week is expected to be innovatively using fretless bass, gui- Park. To date, the event has fea- Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg and Gerry tars, accordion and piano to per- tured three concerts of diverse mu- Conway from Fairport Convention, form classic Dylan songs, as well as sic, ranging from classical recitals by joined by Steve Gibbons and PJ his own material. PJ Wright is best organist Lionel Mann and flautist Wright, who together with Dave known as guitarist and lead vocalist Elke Hornig to evenings of folk and Pegg form the trio Dylan Project. with Little Johnny England, slide pop with Jim Knight, Richie Hen- Born in 1950 and brought up in and pedal steel guitarist with The derson, and Russ Bartlett and the North London, Simon Nicol was a Dylan Project and sideman with Good Old Boys. Given an antici- founding member of Fairport Con- Steve Gibbons. He is also a talented pated audience of over a thousand vention. He has been the band's songwriter, with an ability to blend for the Fairport gig, a new open-air main guitarist and lead singer since a poetic sensibility with an under- venue will be used instead of Villa 1975. He has also released two solo standing of traditional song. He has Theodora. Blessed neither with albums and has toured with a num- released a solo album, Hedge of proximity to the beach nor spec- ber of well-known artists, including Sound, and he supported Fairport tacular surroundings, Agios Ioannis Art Garfunkel. Born in Birming- Convention on their 2006 Winter seems an unlikely venue for an ham in 1947, Dave Pegg joined Tour. event which will attract a new cate- Fairport Convention in 1969, after In conjunction with the main gory of visitors to the island – and having been involved in the vibrant Agios Ioannis concert, the musi- not those in search of a cheap pack- local rock scene throughout the cians plan to perform in various age of sea, sun and booze. But in 60s. In 1980, he joined Jethro Tull combinations at other localities on fact, the village was one of the very as bass player and spent 15 years the island during their visit. Refer- first to cater for tourists; in the early with the band (when Fairport Con- ring to promotional aspects, Philip sixties, young 'hippies' would pitch vention toured the USA with Jethro Mawson said: 'We are hoping to set their tents in the olive groves near Tull, Peggy had to play bass twice up an interview with band mem- the square, and this area is still re- every night!). Dave has also co- bers, and a CD will be distributed ferred to as the 'Cactus Hilton'. organised Fairport's Cropredy festi- to Corfu/Greek radio stations. In Soon the old mansion was con- val since the early 1980s. From principle, TV rights and a sensibly verted into a Youth Hostel, while small beginnings, it has grown into priced DVD of the Festival could be some of the cottages along the main a major event that attracts 20,000 used to further future interest. street became holiday apartments. fans each August. He is also an ac- There is so much scope, and with More recently, a Dutch cycling com- complished mandolin player. the right enthusiasm and interest pany moved in, attracting from Born in 1947 and brought up in this event could become a house- April to October family groups who London, percussionist Gerry Con- hold name in the music world akin enjoy the novelty of cycling up and way joined Fairport Convention in to a mini-Glastonbury. It will be, I down the hills that their homeland 1998. He played with Cat Stevens trust, a little more controlled but it lacks. A further ingredient went for six years, touring all over the should provide an opportunity for into the Agios Ioannis tourism world, and also spent a year on the those involved in the Corfu tourism cocktail with the conversion of an road with Jethro Tull. His session business and local entrepreneurs to edge-of-village ruin into the luxuri- credits include Paul McCartney, flourish, and as a result it may be ous Villa Theodora, venue to date Steeleye Span and Ralph McTell. considered another aspect of eco- for the Music Week, which was the Steve Gibbons has been playing tourism which will boost not only brainchild of English/Greek own- with rock bands since 1960, and the economy of Corfu but the na- ers Paul and Lula. Unlike at Pelekas formed the Steve Gibbons Band in tional one.' Holiday companies will - another 'touristic' inland village - 1971. The band worked the pub be encouraged to offer packages development has hardly changed and club circuits until 1975 when based around the event, and the the appearance of the settlement, they were spotted by Pete Town- new expanded EasyJet services, now and summer visitors blend with the shend of The Who. They subse- flying from Manchester and Bristol, local scene. quently toured with The Who in will allow individual travellers ac- Continued on Page 3 FEBRUARY 2009 SINCE AUGUST 2007 Page 3 There may in addition be some Music Week September 09 musical surprises but you won’t Barry and Stella Knight, for the free and Continued from page 2 know unless you come, as nothing substantial assistance they afford in cater- will be pre-advertised. ing and organization. Kostas Taverna - 100 years old The Tuesday and Thursday per- and now run by the third genera- Rich and Karen Quilter for super logisti- formances will include a buffet as tion of the family - is the sole facil- cal support and catering. per normal. Prices this year will be ity in the village centre and com- 18.50 Euros inclusive.